MS1AS - Audio Systems
| Course specification | ||||
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| Course title | Audio Systems | |||
| Acronym | MS1AS | |||
| Study programme | Electrical Engineering and Computing | |||
| Module | Audio and Video Communications | |||
| Type of study | master academic studies | |||
| Lecturer (for classes) | ||||
| Lecturer/Associate (for practice) | ||||
| Lecturer/Associate (for OTC) | ||||
| ESPB | 6.0 | Status | elective | |
| Condition | No | |||
| The goal | The aim of this course is to explain relevant aspects of sound signal transmission from a source to a listener. It has been presented to the students a collection of topics recognized as relevant ones for understanding of recording, processing and reproduction of the sound. | |||
| The outcome | After the course students will understand technical and user's aspects of audio system implementation in the circumstances they are used for, such as sound reinforcement, radio and TV stations, theatres | |||
| Contents | ||||
| Contents of lectures | Introduction to audio systems. Human perception of sound. Characteristics of audio systems. Audio signals: types, dynamic characteristics, measurements. Input acoustic environment and microphone concept. Spatial information and stereo. Audio devices: types and functions, connecting and power supply. Sound reproduction, sound reinforcement. Acoustic design of input and output acoustic environment. | |||
| Contents of exercises | Work with the software SOUND FORGE. The basic interventions on audio signal (recording, editing, arrangement of record ). Practical introduction to real audio systems: a concert sound reinforcement system, audio system of theatre, radio and TV stations, cinema. | |||
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| Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year | ||||
| Lectures | Exercises | OTC | Study and Research | Other classes |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Methods of teaching | lessons, demonstration in laboratory | |||
| Knowledge score (maximum points 100) | ||||
| Pre obligations | Points | Final exam | Points | |
| Activites during lectures | 10 | Test paper | 60 | |
| Practical lessons | 0 | Oral examination | 0 | |
| Projects | 10 | |||
| Colloquia | 20 | |||
| Seminars | 0 | |||